OBITUARY.

Press, Volume XLIX, Issue 8350, 8 December 1892, Page 5

OBITUARY.

Pmu __io„*_«—K'acttle Tal***tr.p--«Cop-figh-Londoh,- December 6. The death is announced of Bishop Charles Wordsworth. The Right Rev. Charles Wordsworth, D.D. and D.C.L., Bishop of St. Andrews, Dunkeld, and Dunblane, second son of the late Dr. Christopher Wordsworth (many years Master of Trinity College, Cambridge), and nephew of the celebrated poet, born in 1806, was educated at Harrow and 'at Christ Church, Oxford, where he obtained high classical distinctions. He was no less distinguished for athletic exercise., being, in 1829, one of the Oxford eight, and also one of the Oxford eleven, and successful in both encounters with the sister University. After taking his B.A. degree, he remained at Christ Church for two or three years as a private tutor, arid had among his pupHs the late Duke of Newcastle, tho Highc Hon; W. E. Gladstone, Cardinal Manning, and other celebrated men. In 1835 he was selected Second Master of Winchester College, an office which up to that time had never been conferred on anyone not educated at Winchester. On account of weak health he resigned in 1845, and accepted in 1846 the appointment of .first Warden of Trinity College, Glenalmond, Perthshire, which he held for seven years. In 1852 he was elected Bishop of the united dioceses of St. Andrews, Dunkeld, and Dunblane, and at the installation of tiie late Earl of Derby as Chancellor, in 1853, wa3 admitted to the hon. degree of D.C.L by the University of Oxford. In 1854 he' resigned the Wardenship of Gle-aluiond, and aftewards devoted himself exclusively to the duties of the episcopate, taking a_ active part in the aifairs of the Scottish Church. He waa one of the New Testament Company for the Revision of the Authorised Version oi the Bible. He Wrote a large number of theological and other works. His **■ Memoirs," published about a year or so ago, were read with much.interest.